LDS membership passes 15 million mark

More than 80,000 missionaries now serving

8:38 PM,
Oct. 5, 2013

President Thomas S. Monson speaks Saturday morning at the 183rd Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City. Monson said LDS Church membership passed the 15 million mark two weeks ago.

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints now has more than 15 million members worldwide.

Church President Thomas S. Monson made the announcement during his opening remarks Saturday in the first session of the church's 183rd Semiannual General Conference at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City. He also said the number of full-time missionaries in the church has swelled from 58,500 just one year ago to 80,333.

Monson acknowledged it had been one year since he announced the church's policy change on minimum missionary age, lowering it from 19 to 18 for men and from 21 to 19 for women. He ...